Back from Tucson

I was looking forward to a quiet and leisurely flight home yesterday. I figured I was pretty safe flying at 10am on a Tuesday. Who would fly at that time?

Answer? The entire elderly population of Minnesota.

It was a sea of Northern elderly people and they were acting not unlike a group of unruly teenagers. Making friends with each other, flirting, yelling across the plane, laughing boisterously, and generally being disruptive.

It was probably the strangest flight experience I’ve ever had. And that’s saying a lot considering the nine hour conversation I had with that stoner on the way home from Australia.

What was the strangest plane ride you’ve ever been on?

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I haven’t flown much but the best was one I took with my family. My sisters and I started making jokes such as:

“hello this is your Capitan Maverick and my co-pilot here is goose and we have Iceman on the navigation systems. They say this plane isn’t capable of going Mac 1 but I think if we get a good enough nose dive we should be able to break that. Hold on tight.”

We had a great 2 hour flight but the family sitting in front of us did not see the humor in it.

All I can think of was the most frustrating, which was last week to Tampa…yuck! It was kind of strange because I had never had friendlier seating neighbors, they were pretty nice. At least you were stuck with the rowdy old people for 3 hours on the plane while you were going nowhere, tho that might have been kind of fun…

i can’t tell you how much i hate flying. i hate sitting next to people i don’t know, because a. they probably chew their food or gum loudly (and everyone on the plane has to have gum for the takeoff and the landing) b. they probably breath loudly c. they are probably fat d. they probably have some other annoying quirk that makes sound and makes me anxious e. there’s a good chance they have a child. i should really stop leaving my apartment.

I will tell you a 6hr flight to the UK with 70 cheerleaders is = to the eldertouage, you expereinced…..the girl sitting next to me ask me to turn off my reading light because she had to sleep…what??? I was a senior in high school so I told her no…go me…Cheerleader 0 lane 1..my mantra 4 life